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{SPEAKER name="SPEAKER 1"}
Oh all right, okay great! (okay) Listen, we would like to salute you, the people of Washington D.C. Okay? We gonna give you The Scanner Boys salute!
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
You should stay around for this one, this is decent. That's that - that's that breaker talk for you.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Five, six, seven, eight-
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{SPEAKER name="HOST"}
Let's have a hand for The Scanner Boys, of Philadelphia.
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{SPEAKER name="SPEAKER 1"}
4:15 don't forget!
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{SPEAKER name="HOST"}
Over on the main stage, Grand Master now on the Punk Funk Nation and International Playgirls and The Scanner Boys at 4:15.
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{SPEAKER name="HOST"}
We're going to be doing a workshop here in just a few minutes on the traditional traveling forms of black entertainment; minstrelsy, vaudeville and medicine shows with Willy "Ashcan" Jones. For those of you who wish to stay around.
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{SPEAKER name="HOST"}
Watch the workshop. That's right, ladies and gentlemen, come right up! Don't gather around there, gather around over here. You- uh- right over here, you're about to be educated, you're about to be entertained, you're about to see an erudite performance.
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{SPEAKER name="HOST"}
All you have to do is join us and sit down here at the stage, that's right!
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{SPEAKER name="HOST"}
Over there - right - look at these great seats we have here! Come on! Don't walk that way! You in the back, over there! This way, this way, come on up! A lot a seats here, a lot of time.
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{SPEAKER name="HOST"}
Everybody, come on up and have a seat, we're about to do a workshop here, with the one and only, the amazing, the ASTOUNDING, that's right ladies and gentlemen, the only Ashcan Jones in the world.
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{SPEAKER name="HOST"}
I guarantee you, you'll never find another person named Ashcan. We had to look long and hard in Philadelphia to find this one. And a find he was!
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{SPEAKER name="HOST"}
So, gather around we're about to start the workshop. You say, "What is that guy doing up there? What is happening on this stage?" We're going to give you an answer to that, too.
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{SPEAKER name="HOST"}
You know, on the main stage you see a lot of the performances, and you go home, and you say "Hey, I saw a great dancer! I saw a great comedian! I saw a great singer!"
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{SPEAKER name="HOST"}
And then they say, "Yeah, what was he doing?" And you try to explain it, and they say, "Yeah, well, what's his history? Tell me the story. It's the folk festival we're supposed to learn!" And you scratch your head, and say,
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{SPEAKER name="HOST"}
"Uh, well, uh.. I don't remember!" The reason you don't remember is because you didn't come to the workshop stage and hear the performers tell the story themselves. What we're trying to do, here on the narrative stage, is break down some of the traditions.
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{SPEAKER name="HOST"}
Allowing the performers to tell you the story; to tell you a little bit about their own history. When, meanwhile, telling you how what they're doing over on the main performance stage for the Philadelphia area, how that fits in to broader traditions of black entertainment and black tradition.
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{SPEAKER name="HOST"}
The person we have with us on stage today is Mr. Willy "Ashcan" Jones.
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{SPEAKER name="HOST"}
Willy Jones was born and raised on a farm in Georgia, and left at a very young age. In the ensuing years he worked with carnivals, with circuses, as a dancer with traveling reviews,
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{SPEAKER name="HOST"}
in Broadway shows, in Marx brothers movies, that's right, in Marx brothers movies. With the minstrel show, and finally, back with his own carnival show, which he owned and operated for more than 30 years.
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{SPEAKER name="HOST"}
Let's have a big hand please for Willy "Ashcan" Jones!
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